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MCKENZIE ARNN, OF ssis'ron, VIRGINIA, AssIe-sds T 1 or SAME PLACE.

A. II. BLANCHARD,

COM'POSITICN F OR C O LO RENG AND PRESERVlNG WOO D, 800. I I

SPECIFICATIOK forming part of Letters Yateat No. 8C1,767, dated April 5, 1898.

Application filed Tehran"? 27, 1897. Serial Fo- 625332- (K0 zpecimenn-l To allwhom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, MCKEXZIEARXN, acitim of the United States, residing at Bristol,

in the county of \Vashingte: and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements. in Compounds for Coloring 'and Preserving Timber, oi ri'hieh the followiug is a description. 4

T his composition coniste of the following ingredients combined in the proportion stated, towit; ninety gallons of clear celd water, one hundred pounds of lime, one hundred pounds of salt, ten pounds of alum, ten pounds of blue-stone, ten pounds of copper-astwo pounds of lithargc, five pounds of go." arable, ten gallons of kerosene-oil. Stir them ogether well, and then'add two pounds of metallic lead, five pounds of metallic zinc, one pound of metallic copper. After being dissolved in ten gallons of nitric acid, these ingredients are to be thoroughly mingled by agitation.

In using the above-named composition there should be vats made for the fluid where cold clear water can be turned in. This fluid will be ready for use in twenty-four hours after mixed as above. The vats are to be made large enough to hold the timbers or woods or materials to be oxidized or preserved, and after the fluid is placed in the vats the woods or timbers or materials to be oxidized must be placed in the vats and kept beneath the surface of the fluid from twenty-four hours I some? O CLASSIF to sixty days, do;

and kind of meter or preserve all kinds or seasoned. generating-banks, so off when needed.

while being drawn off. time oxidized will be beat light. and water.

I cont.

strength and makes It must be stirred well less liable to burn, her not less than twenty-five per cent. of

it from one to one thencnding upon the thickness ial.

1 can oxidize or color of timbers, either green The fluid should be made in the fluid can be drawn Timbers or materials impervious to insects, Timber is twenty per and it gives to tim- The material oxidized is susceptible of a very high polish without the use of paint or varnish.

Having now what I claim as new,

Letters Patent, is- The above-described composition for coloring, preserving an fully described my invention, 7

and desire to secure by d strengthening timber consisting of one hundred pounds lime, one

hundred pounds salt, pounds of blue-stone, ten pounds of copperasr ten pounds alum, ten

two pounds litharge, fivepounds gum-arabie,,;,,,

ten ga llon'sof kerosene-oil, mixed in clear water and stirred well, with two pounds mev tallic lead, fire pounds metallic zinc, and one pound metallic copper dissolved in ten gallons nitric acid.

Witnesses:

A. A. Henson, Jim. H. Goes.

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